The Plutocracy

• Here is a tale of a journalist and a programmer who set out to make an interactive graphic of diversity in top editorial positions in American newsrooms, and failed. “As it turns out, there isn’t really enough data to make an interactive graphic about ...

For some reason, Alex Pareene was booked on the CNBC Friday afternoon program, Closing Bell. It is baffling why Pareene, a senior writer at Salon, was asked to come on the show–though his appearance does, so far as we know, mark the only time a Baffler contributor has ...

It’s hard to stretch the limits of historical hyperbole on the same day that Sen. Ted Cruz has declared that anyone skeptical about his cunning plan to filibuster an already ratified, signed, and Supreme Court-upheld law out of existence is akin to Nazi appeasers. Yet the ...